#no but the way some of this is shot to look like diao is yi's light

[dramas-vs-novels]

I'm really glad Max switched gears after Cutie Pie and started bulking up instead of slimming down. He just looks... unhealthy-skinny in some shots. Like his head is too big for the body he's trying to pull off.

He seems more comfortably portioned by the time Two Worlds came around.

BUT, to be fair, maybe it's what they're going for- Yi is absolutely tortured by what happened to Diao as a child, and also for killing his beloved pet (in the show Lele is sent away, in the novel he shoots her when she pounces on Diao (and realizes a split second after pulling the trigger she wasn't attacking, she was just curious)).

He doesn't sleep, he only eats a little, and way too much of his diet consists of alcohol to numb it all. So like, the thinness and strain might have been a conscious choice.

[stormyoceans]

now that im done with the show im even more convinced that a cherry magic AU would be PERFECT for jayfoei

like jay believing that he has to play the flirty kinda bad boy part to get somewhere in life because that's what people have always expected from him, and at one point some higher ups bring him (and foei) along to have dinner with some big shot but they immediately make clear to jay that he needs to please her in any way because they need to close a deal or something, and foei overhears this and when the president actually unashamedly proposes to jay to go somewhere private in front of everyone and jay is about to go through with it, foei like.. either spills something on her and makes her so angry she leaves, or pretends to be very sick so that jay has to bring him to the hospital

either way once they're alone foei tells jay that he doesn't have to make himself go through those things when he obviously doesn't want to, and anyway jay is already good enough and pretty much the only person foei sees as a rival for the position of sales manager, and jay pretty much falls in love right then and there

AND THEN foei turns 30 and he gets the magic and suddenly his life becomes so much more complicated because he can hear everyone's thoughts just by touching them, so suddenly he: 1) no longer can manage to look kuea in the eyes because every time he touches lian he sees all the things lian wants to do to kuea, 2) learns that secretary kim also has the same magic and that she is in love with lian's secretary, 3) gets involved into trying to help yi and diao fix their relationship, 4) finds out jay likes him when foei actually thought jay hated him?????

chaos and romance ensue